The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.